Will bigger wind turbines help Europe reach its clean energy goals?

The European Commission says it needs its wind power capacity to reach 451 GW by 2030, up from current figures of 180 GW.

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00:11 From a general logistical or design point of view,

00:13 it's not a problem to produce bigger.

00:15 As I said, this is a 7.2 megawatt machine.

00:17 To go higher up to 15 or even 18 megawatt,

00:20 that is not a problem at all from the technology point of view.

00:23 But we have to keep it on this level to industrialize it,

00:26 to optimize the processes,

00:28 to avoid all the mistakes which might be in.

00:30 Make sure that everything is correct in terms of quality,

00:33 to reduce the production cost,

00:35 to reduce the quality cost,

00:36 the failure cost, etc.

00:38 Therefore, we are at the moment voting to keep for this level for now,

00:42 because it's a big machines,

00:43 they are high efficient,

00:44 they are high-tech machines.

00:46 It's perfectly made for the next decade to run and to reach our targets.

00:51 There is not really a need for a bigger machine.

00:54 Not here on onshore,

00:56 this is an onshore version or even not on offshore.

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